Teachers are the most important resource in today's schools. In every country,
teachers' salaries and training represent the greatest share of
expenditure in education. And this investment in teachers can have
significant returns: research shows that being taught by the best
teachers can make a real difference in the learning and life outcomes of
otherwise similar students. Teachers, in other words, are not
interchangeable workers in some sort of industrial assembly line;
individual teachers can change lives - and better teachers are crucial
to improving the education that schools provide. Improving the
effectiveness, efficiency and equity of schooling depends, in large
measure, on ensuring that competent people want to work as teachers,
that their teaching is of high quality and that high-quality teaching is
provided to all students.
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